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Nesis

User’s Manual

Kanardia

September 2011

Kanardia d.o.o.

Nesis

User Manual – Version 2.0

Summary of Contents for Nesis

Page 1: ...Nesis User s Manual Kanardia September 2011 Kanardia d o o Nesis User Manual Version 2 0 1...

Page 2: ...o as the author of the original work and you distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one Credits This document was written using TeTeX L A TEX based document creat...

Page 3: ...Menu 14 3 1 2 Moving Map Zoom Level 15 3 2 Navigation Screen 2 15 3 2 1 Menu 16 3 3 Engine Monitor Screen 3 17 3 3 1 Menu 18 3 4 Modern Flight Information Screen 4 18 3 4 1 Menu 21 3 5 Settings Screen...

Page 4: ...38 6 5 1 First Step 39 6 5 2 Second Step 40 6 6 Time Date 40 6 7 Software Update 41 6 7 1 Downloading Updates 41 6 7 2 Extracting Update Files into USB Stick 41 6 7 3 Transferring Files into Nesis 42...

Page 5: ...tor 53 7 2 Attitude Indicator 54 7 3 Altitude Indicator 55 7 4 Vertical Speed Indicator and Accelerometer 55 7 5 Tachometer and Manifold Pressure Indicator 56 7 6 Gyrocopter Rotor and Engine RPM Indic...

Page 6: ...u is an inertial navigation unit AHRS aided by the GPS and pressure sensors Airu provides attitude position and velocities Airu is hidden inside the Primary Nesis display Mabu unit is a hidden unit an...

Page 7: ...Nesis has no moving parts This means it has less problems with fatigue and ageing The following MEMS sensors are used in the Nesis system The angular rate sensors also known as gyros are used in the a...

Page 8: ...rious engines up to six cylinders e g Rotax Jabiru Lycoming When an engine is equipped with proper sensors it can measure engine RPM cylinder head temperature CHT exhaust gas temperature EGT oil press...

Page 9: ...ot possible in all aspects and the quality of the information may vary from country to country It is important to notice that we cannot guarantee that the information included with Nesis or otherwise...

Page 10: ...panel Here is a brief description of individual items The On Off button is used to turn Nesis on o The USB port or SD card slot is used for software chart and data updates The OK Menu button is used...

Page 11: ...he cases when Nesis stops responding Note The On Off button is a soft button and the internal electronic circuit consumes a small amount of electric energy even when Nesis is o Although such consumpti...

Page 12: ...selection 1 Press the Cancel button in order to switch from the control edit mode into the control selection mode 2 Use the knob button to select a pilot fuel level or QNH control 3 Pressing the OK bu...

Page 13: ...ows an example of the screen All round gauges are fully configurable and may show other information as well 1 The airspeed indicator displays IAS indicated airspeed and TAS true airspeed The indicator...

Page 14: ...icator can be displayed in feet min m s and m min units Variometer is combined with g meter which is located below the center 7 The engine monitor organizes all most important engine parameters into o...

Page 15: ...y exception is the start up when Nesis needs some time to prepare the initial maps Zoom levels are changed by turning the knob button 3 2 Navigation Screen 2 The navigation screen is a large moving ma...

Page 16: ...so illustrated on the map Black line represents the route thicker cyan line is used for the remaining distance on the active leg White rectangle shows estimated time of arrival to the next waypoint an...

Page 17: ...een displays classic indicators of various engine and fuel related pa rameters Some instruments and parameters are configurable and they may be adjusted to individual needs Figure 11 Illustration of t...

Page 18: ...e monitored hence needles for hot orange dot and cold blue dot are displayed 9 When more than two cylinders are monitored bars are used instead the needles The same is true for the EGTs 7 Backup batte...

Page 19: ...36 The scale also displays the heading bug marker which gives you direction to the selected waypoint 2 The heading label displays true heading tracking or magnetic heading 3 The altitude label displa...

Page 20: ...lectric instruments section voltage and current 10 The pressure section oil and fuel pressures 11 The temperature section EGTs CHTs carburetor oil and coolant 12 The inclinometer slip skid indicator 1...

Page 21: ...ere is additional View command used to change the view see figure 13 Figure 16 Menu commands for the modern screen Only the extended portion of commands is shown 3 5 Settings Screen 5 The rightmost di...

Page 22: ...ionally you can simply wait and Nesis will accept given value after a few seconds Press the Cancel button to close the dialog Recent changes are rejected 4 1 1 QFE Operation When you operate your airp...

Page 23: ...e glide mode however below the safety altitude Green arrow indicates that airfield should be reached in the glide mode at or above the safety altitude Minimal safety altitude and glide ratio are confi...

Page 24: ...s used to include or exclude individual lists airfields navigation aids VFR reporting points and user specific points Name filter is used to filter points according to their name Only names which matc...

Page 25: ...letter is displayed Press the OK button to enter the displayed letter into the name filter field The list of waypoints changes accordingly Press the Cancel button to remove the last letter in the edit...

Page 26: ...select the coordinate field you want to change 2 Press OK to activate the field control and turn the knob to change it Once correct value is shown in the field press OK again This accepts the entry an...

Page 27: ...ion of a Route When a route is activated any previous active waypoint is deactivated According to the airplane position Nesis first tries to activate the starting waypoint in the Route Direct to is us...

Page 28: ...e Nesis start up procedure However if you need to modify it during the flight switch to the engine monitor screen press the OK Menu button and then select the Fuel Level button A dialog similar to fig...

Page 29: ...ted so that it covers the point In the second step the cursor is moved along the radial line over the point Radial and cursor are working in a polar coordinate system Using the radial and the cursor t...

Page 30: ...clears any exiting route points which were entered so far Route Add This command adds the cursor position as a new route waypoint If there is a known navigation point close to the cursor position this...

Page 31: ...rsor approach or by selecting a waypoint from the dialog 4 Press the Route Add button to add the cursor to the route Repeat the last two steps until the route is complete 5 Finish the route by saving...

Page 32: ...book icon is used to view the flight logs The User Preferences icon is used to change some parameters which define Nesis behaviour The Units icon is used to change the instrument units The Compass Cal...

Page 33: ...gine icon configures the engine related settings and sensors connected to the engine monitoring unit Daqu The Tank Calibration icon starts setup procedure for the fuel level measuring hard ware and ru...

Page 34: ...activates the waypoint list control where waypoints can be inserted or removed The Delete command permanently removes selected route The deletion must be confirmed The Reverse command reverses the wa...

Page 35: ...flights Each log entry reveals several details of selected flight The entries in the log have the following columns Date when the flight was taken Take o time Landing time When you fly tra c patterns...

Page 36: ...n parallel An engine start is detected when engine exceeds 500 RPM and engine stop is recorded when RPM drop below that limit Special algorithms are used to prevent false flight or engine recordings d...

Page 37: ...oss country flights This speed is used to calculate time estimates Nesis remembers last used cruising speed 6 3 2 Map Map option defines the way map is presented on the map screens All map screens are...

Page 38: ...in m min Wind speed velocity km h m s knots Distance length km SM NM Pressure used in engine bar psi Temperature C F Mass kg lbs Fuel volume l gal Fuel flow volume flow l h gal h 6 5 Compass Calibrati...

Page 39: ...the second step this remaining o set error is entered manually In order to obtain the o set error airplane shall be directed into two or three known reference headings19 Write down the di erences bet...

Page 40: ...nce and true heading HSI map reading or vice versa Write down this di erence for a few di erent directions and calculate the average Set this average into Nesis 1 Open the Compass Calibration dialog a...

Page 41: ...he software The update is performed in several steps downloading updates extracting update files into an USB stick transferring files from USB stick into Nesis updating firmware 6 7 1 Downloading Upda...

Page 42: ...utomatically hides the packages which shouldn t be updated This means that you usually see less packages than stored in the USB stick 2 Press the Upgrade button and wait for Nesis to finish copying th...

Page 43: ...6 The units listed on your screen will be similar 3 Use the knob to select the first unit with the Upgrade text shown in the Status column 4 Press the Program button and confirm 5 Wait until the progr...

Page 44: ...aulty sensor keeps signaling false alarms and here you disable it until sensor is replaced Text is used to display alarm without any sound Sound Text is used to display alarm and plays a beep sound Vo...

Page 45: ...als with the aircraft gliding perfromance Figure 40 An example of the system preferences dialog 6 11 1 Nesis The Nesis section mostly deals with the look of the Nesis on the screen which instrument la...

Page 46: ...procedure described next Please note that you can t adjust the attitude when the airplane is flying or engine is running Before the automatic alignment is made the yaw misalignment shall be determined...

Page 47: ...he values The Close button closes the dialog and restores previous correction Figure 42 En example of attitude adjustment dialog 6 13 Airplane Engine This dialog sets the engine type and configures se...

Page 48: ...ur channel types are used in Daqu A Designates analog channels which are typically used to connects resistive sensors Typ ical resistive sensors are thermocouple temperature probes various VDO pressur...

Page 49: ...dialog and returns to the step one e Press Reset to reset the channel use this on unused channels f Press Close to close the channel editing without accepting new parameters 2 Once all channels are s...

Page 50: ...bration For the User shape you must proceed with the Edit tank shape option 6 14 2 Calibrate Sensors Min Max This option can be used only when the tank shape is already known This is true for all non...

Page 51: ...Add the inaccessible amount of fuel into the tank You may also consider to add a few extra liters for safety This defines the zero fuel level 2 Press the Add button and select the zero fuel from the...

Page 52: ...shift its origin when the instrument has been exposed to very low or very high temperatures Adjust the o set in order to get correct barometric pressure Airspeed correction just like the altitude sen...

Page 53: ...The white range is the normal range of operating speeds for the aircraft with the flaps extended as for landing or takeo Depending on the aircraft the white range may have additional upper speed limit...

Page 54: ...It indicates pitch and roll 25 Figure 50 Attitude indicator combined with the slip skid indicator Figure 50 illustrates the attitude indicator combined with the inclinometer ball as it is found in Nes...

Page 55: ...altitude is shown by two needles where the short needle points to 1000 feet or meters and the long needle points to 100 feet meters 27 The pressure based altimeter is more precise then the GPS obtain...

Page 56: ...its alternative name RPM indicator A manifold pressure is an e ect of choked flow through a throttle in the intake manifold of an engine It is a measure of the amount of restriction of airflow through...

Page 57: ...nt At the bottom a window with a numerical RPM values is also shown However this is not a limitation The window can show manifold pressure instead Figure 54 The combination of rotor RPM and engine RPM...

Page 58: ...he airplane nose The tracking option is based on the movement of the airplane In this case the scale and map are orientated in the direction of the airplane ground track The tracking information is ba...

Page 59: ...ion times and vice versa The wind arrow is used to inform pilot about the wind direction When the windspeed is less than 2 0 m s the arrow is omited The top bar displays numeric information about the...

Page 60: ...amount This means that theoretical range is longer than the range displayed on the monitor The endurance is also a derived value based on the available fuel quantity and average fuel consumption It re...

Page 61: ...uently compare the fuel level indicated by the fuel computer with the independent external fuel gauges and indicators and update the Nesis fuel level The fuel level update procedure is described in se...

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